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  • NYC's summer work program for youth called a success, with 100K jobs filled

    New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program helps 14-to-24-year-olds find paid jobs through summer contracts with community organizations, and the city picks up the cost of their paychecks.

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  • With an Affinity to Care

    In an effort to reduce incarceration, homelessness, and hospitalization, Affinity House provides people with mental illness a free place to form social connections and work their way towards employment one step at a time with the clubhouse staff.

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  • Greece's Islands Are Zero-Waste Laboratories

    Tilos, Greece, works with a network of companies to collect and sort the island residents' waste to be composted, recycled, or reused instead of using a landfill.

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  • How Teens Are Pushing Back On Book Bans

    In response to a wave of book bans within school districts, the Brooklyn Public Library began offering digital library cards to increase book access. The initiative, Books Unbanned, allows13 to 21-year-olds to sign up for a digital library card that provides access to an entire library of books, including those that were banned.

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  • Kansas, Nebraska researchers use plants to limit exposure to toxic lead in soil

    Using biochar to plant crops on soil contaminated with lead reduces the amount of lead the crops soak up.

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  • Why Scotland Is Opening a Dementia Center in a National Park

    The nonprofit Alzheimer Scotland hosts outdoor events in Cairngorms National Park for people with dementia and their families to give them the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors safely.

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  • The Immigrant Women Workers Learning To Disrupt The Cleaning Industry

    Liberty Cleaners co-created a curriculum to train immigrant women workers about tech education, green cleaning, and workers’ rights. As the first women-led workers’ hub in the country, the group is organizing and enabling its members with skills that can ensure they receive the fair wages, opportunities, and respect they deserve but are often denied.

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  • In Cleveland, fine dining serves up training – and dignity – after prison

    The owner of Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, employs formerly incarcerated adults and teaches them the skills they need to work in the culinary industry. Less than 1% of the institute’s trainees are re-incarcerated after graduation.

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  • A new way to pay for college

    Income share agreements provide students a new way to pay for college. They receive the money they need by agreeing to give the school a percentage of their future earnings for a set number of years after graduation.

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  • Dallas parents flocking to schools that pull students from both rich and poor parts of town

    Transformation Schools in Dallas, Texas, admit students by lottery to combat concentrated poverty and declining enrollment with more socioeconomically diverse students.

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